Sasia (sasia)

[NL. (B. R. Hodgson, 1836), from a native name.] A notable genus of In dian piculets or pygmy woodpeckers of the subfamily Picumninæ, with naked orbits and only three toes. P. ochracea and P. abnormis are two examples. They range from Nepal and Sikhim through Burma into the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, etc. Also called Comeris, Microcolaptes, Dryaltes, and Picumnoides. sasin (sas'in), n. [E. Ind.] The common Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra or A. bezoar tic a, remarkable for its swiftne and beauty. IMG:content-0133.jpg:[graphic] Sasin, or Indian Antelope ( Antilope cervicapra). It is abundant in the open dry plains of India, in flocks of from ten to sixty females to a single male. It will clear from 25 to 30 feet at a bound, and rise even 10 or 11 feet from the earth. It is grayish-brown or black on the upper parts of the body, with white abdomen and breast, and a white circle round the eyes. It stands about 2 feet 6 inches high at the shoulder. This is the animal which is considered to represent the modern restricted genus An tilope , from which many more have been succe ively detached for other and very numerous Anti lop inæ of Asia and Africa. Its usual specific name is not to be confounded with the same word used in a generic sense for the very different African boh or. The sasin is among several antelopes loosely called algazel . It has long been known as a source of bezoar, as indicated by one of its specific names. The record of the sasin, in its relations to man, goes back to the dawn of history; for it is the animal with the straight corkscrew horns so commonly figured on the monuments of As syria and Babylonia. In India it is usually figured drawing the car of Chandra, the moon-god, and furnishes a probable prototype of the animals with which the cla ic huntre Diana is a ociated. It is there also a regular attribute of Siva, or Mahadeva, held by the hind legs upright in one of the hands of this god, and connected with linga-worship, apparently from its reputed salacity. sasine (sā'sin), n. 1. An obsolete form of seizin , retained archaically in Scots law. Specifically-2. In Scots law , either ( a ) the act of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary sasine giving legal po e ion of feudal property (in which case it is synonymous with infeftment ), or (b) the instrument by which the fact is proved. There is a general office for the registering of sasines in Edinburgh. - Cognition and sasine. See cognition.-Precept of sasine. See precept. - Sasine ox, a perquisite formerly due to the sheriff when he gave infeftment to an heir holding crown lands. It was afterward converted into a payment in money proportioned to the value of the estate, and is now done away with.